Future Hanna-Barbera DVDs

ClassicTVFan1981 · 04-25-2008, 04:10 AM

With the May 20 release of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show now less than a month away, now I would like to what future Hanna-Barbera (and some Ruby-Spears) DVDs are on the horizon for Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Here's my outlook on WBE's Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears DVD horizon:
*The All-New Super Friends Hour, Vol. 2 (H-B) (the last 9 episodes; the very last one introduces Superman's most feared foe, the quite-unpronounceable Mxyzptlk)
*The Smurfs: Season 1, Vol. 2 (H-B)
*The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show: The Complete Series, Vol. 1 (R-S)
*The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972) (H-B) (the 1972-73 season Pebbles & Bamm Bamm segments are the bonus features on the already-released Pebbles & Bamm Bamm Show DVD)
*Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics: The Complete Series, Vol. 1 (H-B)
*The World's Greatest Super Friends: The Complete Series (H-B)
*The Super Friends Hour Shorts (H-B)

~Ben (ClassicTVFan1981)

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Aaron Handy III · 04-25-2008, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ClassicTVFan1981

With the May 20 release of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show now less than a month away, now I would like to what future Hanna-Barbera (and some Ruby-Spears) DVDs are on the horizon for Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Here's my outlook on WBE's Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears DVD horizon:
*The All-New Super Friends Hour, Vol. 2 (H-B) (the last 9 episodes; the very last one introduces Superman's most feared foe, the quite-unpronounceable Mxyzptlk)
*The Smurfs: Season 1, Vol. 2 (H-B)
*The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show: The Complete Series, Vol. 1 (R-S)
*The Flintstone Comedy Show (1972) (H-B) (the 1972-73 season Pebbles & Bamm Bamm segments are the bonus features on the already-released Pebbles & Bamm Bamm Show DVD)
*Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics: The Complete Series, Vol. 1 (H-B)
*The World's Greatest Super Friends: The Complete Series (H-B)
*The Super Friends Hour Shorts (H-B)

~Ben (ClassicTVFan1981)

I'm waiting for word on the next Tom & Jerry DVD release...which after 3 volumes of theatrical MGM H-B releases, would undoubtedly be the 1975 series! I also wouldn't mind seeing the original 1970 Harlem Globetrotters released, as well.

And don't you mean The Flintstone Comedy Hour, Ben?

AndyMcKinney · 04-25-2008, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Aaron Handy III

I'm waiting for word on the next Tom & Jerry DVD release...which after 3 volumes of theatrical MGM H-B releases, would undoubtedly be the 1975 series!

I'm kind of hoping for the Gene Deitch shorts to come out sometime (ducks head).

Another H-B production I'd like to see come out: the live-action Legends of the Super-Heroes specials from 1979.

Corey3rd · 04-25-2008, 08:32 AM

Gene and the Chuck Jones T&J cartoons.

Scott_J · 04-25-2008, 04:55 PM

I'm still waiting for WB to release Jetsons Meet the Flintstones. Both shows are complete on DVD (except for the 80s season of the Jetsons), so what are they waiting for on the movie?

ClassicTVFan1981 · 04-25-2008, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Scott_J

I'm still waiting for WB to release Jetsons Meet the Flintstones. Both shows are complete on DVD (except for the 80s season of the Jetsons), so what are they waiting for on the movie?

They also need to release all the Flintstones primetime specials, including:
*A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
*Little Big League (1978)
*The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980)
*The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1980)
*Fred's Final Fling (1980)
*Wind-Up Wilma (1981)
*Jogging Fever (1981)

~Ben

Tina_H_V · 04-25-2008, 09:35 PM

My primary interests are as follows:

Vol. 2 of The Huckleberry Hound Show

Will Quick Draw McGraw EVER be restored? (The master prints were so very badly deteriorated that it was deemed unfit for immediate release at the time.)

Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles

Where's Huddles? (A Tenth Anniversary homage of sorts to The Flintstones as I recall watching in prime time during the summer of 1970.)

Ruff 'N' Ready (the bridge between Tom & Jerry and all which followed after the M-G-M animation dept. shutdown).

Andrew Radke · 04-26-2008, 02:21 AM

I've said it before but I'll reiterate.

ABBOTT & COSTELLO

When I was a kid in the 80's, I had a VHS tape chock full of A&C cartoons. What was cool about it is the fact that Bud Abbott provided the voice work for his own character. I'd pick this up in a heartbeat if it were to ever become available.

Here's a clip of the opening credits for those who are unfamiliar:

YouTube - Abbott & Costello TV cartoon intro (1966)

SilverWook · 04-26-2008, 02:43 AM

Have any Ruby-Spears shows come out on DVD at all?

I'm still hoping for Thundarr the Barbarian someday.

ClassicTVFan1981 · 04-26-2008, 03:08 AM

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Have any Ruby-Spears shows come out on DVD at all?

I'm still hoping for Thundarr the Barbarian someday.

AFAIK, only "It's Punky Brewster", "Rambo" and "Skysurfer Strike Force."

Again, that is the whole point of why I started this thread in the first place.

When WBE decides to issue more H-B and R-S related DVDs, I think they ought to resurrect the front cover art used on the mid 1980s Worldvision VHS derivations (with either HANNA-BARBERA or RUBY-SPEARS, in the 1977 Hanna-Barbera logotype called Bimini, on the top of this art).

Mark Y · 04-27-2008, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ClassicTVFan1981

AFAIK, only "It's Punky Brewster", "Rambo" and "Skysurfer Strike Force."

Again, that is the whole point of why I started this thread in the first place.

When WBE decides to issue more H-B and R-S related DVDs, I think they ought to resurrect the front cover art used on the mid 1980s Worldvision VHS derivations (with either HANNA-BARBERA or RUBY-SPEARS, in the 1977 Hanna-Barbera logotype called Bimini, on the top of this art).

Nah, they should do them in the style of the old Columbia home movie editions, maybe with a sticker on the cover that says "DVD" instead of "Super 8!"

In fact, they should have included the home movie "Flintstones" and "Jetsons" cut-downs as bonus features!

Mark Y · 04-27-2008, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew Radke

I've said it before but I'll reiterate.

ABBOTT & COSTELLO

When I was a kid in the 80's, I had a VHS tape chock full of A&C cartoons. What was cool about it is the fact that Bud Abbott provided the voice work for his own character. I'd pick this up in a heartbeat if it were to ever become available.

Here's a clip of the opening credits for those who are unfamiliar:

YouTube - Abbott & Costello TV cartoon intro (1966)

Through some bizarre set of circumstances, it appears (from searching some copyright info online) that WB actually owns these! (At least in the U.S. -- I'm not sure about internationally, so that may be another issue.) Apparently, the copyrights were in the name of RKO, which got bought out by Turner, which got bought out by WB. So who knows...maybe some day. (Unlike the Laurel & Hardy cartoons, Larry Harmon had nothing to do with these.)

Actually, they could have included at least some of them as bonus features on some of the DVD releases of the A&C movies. But they didn't. (WB still controls Rio Rita, Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd, and Jack & The Beanstalk - though the latter is public domain. I'd love to see a set come out, maybe with the also public domain Africa Screams, to round things out.)